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Working for a Living Wage 2014
Making Paid Work Meet Basic Family Needs in Metro Vancouver Download 1.52 MB8 pages Please note: The updated 2019 Living Wage report is now available. Attachments Living Wage…
Paying a ‘living wage’ is good for everybody
We all want Metro Vancouver to be a livable and sustainable place, for ourselves, our families and our children. However, for many families who work…
2014 living wage calculation: Parents need two minimum wage jobs each to support a family in Metro Vancouver
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – A report released today finds that the wage needed to cover the costs of raising a family in…
Work Life: Why we still fight
The Day of Mourning, more than any other day in the labour movement’s calendar, brings home why we must remain vigilant in the area of…
Unions and Democracy
Download 580.99 KB18 pages It is well known that unions and collective bargaining allows workers to achieve progress in areas such as compensation, working conditions,…
The Creation of a Shared Prosperity in Canada
Unions, Corporations and Countervailing Power Download 919.8 KB36 pages This report documents how the growth of unions from the First World War to the mid…
Understanding Union Security and its Effects
Download 606.88 KB20 pages Canadian labour law has ensured that all workers who benefit from collective agreements contribute to the cost of maintaining those agreements…
Hennessy’s Index: April 2014
Ontario Equal Pay Day Facts Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in…
A Growing Concern
Ontario’s Gender Pay Gap Download 709.56 KB35 pages Last year, the Ontario Equal Pay Coalition, in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario…
Work Life: Temporary Foreign Workers: How federal settlement policies overlook some newcomers
Manitoba has embarked on aggressive immigration strategies to attract newcomers to settle in a variety of communities in the province with the purpose of meeting…
The Living Wage: What it is and How it Pays
The authors of “A Living Wage for Regina” discuss the Living Wage with the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of Regina. View the…
What The Federal Government Could Do If It Really Wanted To Reduce Youth Unemployment
Submission to The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Study of Youth Unemployment Download 127.12 KB5 pages On March 25, 2014, CCPA Senior Economist…
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